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We are looking for a Data Business Analyst! Reach out if you are interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!
Type of Employment: Contract
Title: Data Business Analyst
Term: Contract – 12 months with extension
Location: Ottawa – Hybrid – twice a week
Industry: Government
Job ID number: C1390
Brief Description on Duties:
Description of Service
Data Business Analyst/Data Integrator Services to support data template creation, and application configuration requirements.
Primary Responsibilities
- Data requirements development and integration support between source systems
- Work directly with Line of Business Users to support data collection, cleansing, and uploading into new system of record.
- Communicates with administrators, end users, vendors, service providers and other outside organizations to coordinate activities, programs, schedule work, resolve issues
- Investigates, understands, describes and documents data contents in transaction systems and target systems.
- Report progress and highlight gaps and issues with Project team
- What are we trying to solve and what's included in the IFRS9 Solution?
- The IFRS9 Solution is intended to better inform decision-making wrt allowance measurement, and to make scenario generation and model life-cycle mgmt. more efficient.
- The primary purpose of the IFRS9 Solution initiative is to reduce operational risk in the Expected Capital Loss calculation process and to produce trusted and intuitive IFRS9 PD curves for use in allowance calculations.
- The primary objective in 2024 is to run EDC's Dec 31, 2024 fiscal financial statements through the new IFRS9 PD models in a well-controlled environment.
- The IFRS9 Solution includes new IFRS9 PD models, a new Scenario generator, a new ECL calculation engine, and (outside of the scope of the ICO CAD 2.5M funding and for completion in 2025) a new model platform.
- This role will support getting the correct data into a well-controlled technology solution to ensure validation, IFRS9 Compliance, reducing our Operational, and Financial risk. Skills
- Background/Experience in Financial Servies industry- Knowledge of Risk Management Practices, and experience with Moody's implementations, and SaaS solutions
- Experience with Data Extractions, Data Mapping, and Data Loading
- Experience working with multiple source/target systems such as Oracle, MS SQL Server, XML files, flat files, MS access/excel documents.
- Background/Experience in Financial Servies industry- Knowledge of Risk Management Practices, and experience with Moody's implementations, and SaaS solutions
- Experience with Data Extractions, Data Mapping, and Data Loading
- Investigates, understands, describes and documents data contents in transaction systems;
- Communicates with administrators, end users, vendors, service providers and other outside organizations to coordinate activities, programs, schedule work, resolve issues;
- Experience with API Integration implementation
- Development of detailed process maps
- Experience in a Kanban team, experience writing and managing user stories
- Experience working with multiple source/target systems such as Oracle, MS SQL Server, XML files, flat files, MS access/excel documents.
- Strong knowledge of system testing and software quality assurance best practices and methodologies.
- CPA, CFA, IFRS9 Accounting experience
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| Job Category | Data Business Analyst |
We are looking for a Systems Analyst! Reach out if you are interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!
Type of Employment: Contract
Title: Systems Analyst
Term: Contract – 10 months with extension
Location: Toronto – Hybrid – 3 days a week
Industry: Banking
Job ID number: C1389
Brief Description on Duties:
Position Summary
The Systems Analyst will analyze, design and test software solutions to meet our business objectives. They have
outstanding problem-solving abilities and can communicate their ideas easily to others. They are willing to learn to
technologies and eager to apply their learning’s in a fast-paced environment.
Duties Include:
- Liaises with business stakeholders and other teams to understand business objectives and design a solution that will meet their decision support and management reporting needs.
- Elicits requirements from business stakeholders through interviews, workshops, business process analysis, business scenarios, and user stories.
- Analyzes and conceptualizes the design of the data solution, working with the Systems Architect and
- Software Developer to achieve the client stakeholder objectives through effective deployment of technology.
- Analyzing the transactional system data requirements and modeling the data design to match the enterprise data warehouse design.
- Identifying outlying data patterns and data cleanliness issues for resolution.
- Working with the data architecture team to understand the design of the data warehouse.
- Documenting the high-level design for the software development team.
- Design of models (including views, table functions, etc.), ensuring alignment to standards both industry (e.g., Kimball) and internal.
- Ensuring the quality of the solution by testing the results of the development meets the requirements of the business.
- Post-secondary degree/diploma in a related discipline (CMA, MBA, Management Information Systems, Commerce, Business Analysis, and Computer Science).
- 5+ years’ experience working with business principles and a broad range of different types of business functions.
- Strong understanding of IS Methodologies, processes and practices, and experience with data systems analysis and data warehouse design.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills that rely on a structured approach to problem solving.
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills with a demonstrated ability to work effectively in a team environment.
- Effective planning and organizational skills with the ability to adapt to change and perform effectively under pressure.
- Experience in Financial Services and Wealth Management industries would be an asset.
- Experience in the writing and use of SQL
- Experience in Tableau would be an asset
- Knowledge of SAP in the one or more of the following areas (Web Intelligence, ECC, BW and HANA) would be an asset
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| Job Category | System Analyst, Systems Analyst |
We are looking for a Business Analyst! Reach out if you are interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!
Type of Employment: Contract
Title: Business Analyst
Term: Contract – 10 months with extension
Location: Toronto – Hybrid – twice a week
Industry: Banking
Job ID number: C1388
Brief Description on Duties:
Story Behind the Need:
- Business group: GOCT Solution Architecture & Engineering (OU20020954). The Innovation team within the Emerging Technology and Platform Engineering utilizes emerging technologies like Blockchain, AI, Cloud, and others to optimize the Bank's internal processes. The team is seeking a Business Analyst to support the Athena application project – Athena is an internal chatbot that answers users' questions.
- Reason: Support the current migration initiative.
- Work with the business to identify gaps and enhancements to the business instances' knowledge bases and work with the development team to implement the changes.
- The incumbent is responsible for providing product/project/initiatives status to the product manager and management team and raising any escalated issues promptly.
- Participate in the product implementation by developing and documenting test cases, performing integration testing, raising defects, and providing end-user documentation for the product changes.
- Identify enhancements for Athena.
- Responsible for creating end users' stories in JIRA or similar product management software to manage the Agile projects.
- Provide post-implementation support (Hypercare) by tracking, analyzing, monitoring, and reporting project and application-related problems and issues.
- The incumbent is an active contributor to designing sustainable DevOps. The Product analyst is required to come up with best practices and procedures.
- Must possess good listening and communication skills to work effectively with end-users and project team members.
- 5-8 years of relevant work in or experience in delivering Technical Products/Business Solutions
- 5-8 years of experience in conducting business analysis and documenting business requirements for medium to large-size projects.
- 8+ years of experience in generating Power BI presentations from scratch and working with other Microsoft products.
- 5-8 years of experience working with Systems and process knowledge of Software Development Lifecycle (Agile) and Project Management
- Prior experience in the following Business lines (CB, GBM, IB)
- Project management and business analysis certificate
- Collaboration in diverse teams and settings
- Passionate about Innovation and Innovative technologies
- Being able to work up- down within the organization
- Excellent written and communication skills to clearly express concepts and ideas.
- Ability to work as part of a team, as well as work independently with minimal direction.
- Post-secondary education is required but would be preferred in a related field.
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| Job Category | Business Analyst |
We are looking for a Business Analyst! Reach out if you are interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!
Type of Employment: Contract
Title: Business Analyst
Term: Contract – 6 months with extension
Location: Toronto – Hybrid – 3 days a week
Industry: Banking
Job ID number: C1387
Brief Description on Duties:
The team is extending the trade surveillance and a new system needs to be implemented. The successful candidate will be conducting UAT testing to ensure operation runs smoothly.
Scotiabank’s Global Compliance Trade Surveillance (GCTS) Team is seeking a Trade Surveillance Analyst to join our team. We are building a leading, best-in-class, Global Compliance function to maintain customer trust, deliver efficiencies across business units, and to be trusted advisors and partners in protecting the Bank’s reputation and strengthen Scotiabank’s overall Compliance program.
Candidate Value Proposition:
- The successful candidate will be working on high-visibility initiative with opportunities to grow within the corporation.
- The Trade Surveillance Analyst will report into the Senior Manager, OTC Trade Surveillance and collaborate with various internal stakeholders to support processes within the Trade Surveillance program.
- Candidate should possess a combination of in-depth knowledge of Capital Markets, OTC Products, trade lifecycle, trading strategies, trade surveillance and market abuse concepts.
- Translate business needs into requirements, identify opportunities for process improvement and ensuring delivered solutions meet business expectations in managing/mitigating risks.
- Act as a resource for the team by supporting the OTC Trade Surveillance department Senior Manager(s) and assisting Compliance Officers and other Senior Compliance Officers in the execution of their duties.
- Act as Subject matter expert for issues involving business divisions, Operations, Finance and any other external group as required.
- Execute test cases in Trades Surveillance solution/applicable source system(s) and document results from testing in JIRA.
- Act independently, conduct research and perform analyses in support of regulatory or marketplace inquiries, investigations and/or examinations; including internal matters escalated to Trade Surveillance.
- Recommend solutions and actions to resolve outstanding issues. Escalate matters requiring further investigation or specialist assistance.
- Develop and deliver periodic and ad hoc compliance training for team members based upon particular expertise. This may, on occasion, extend to external stakeholders.
- Supports effectiveness testing of business supervision related processes and controls, including identification of gaps in the existing trade surveillance processes.
- Assist in the development and enhancement of policies, procedures and processes of the surveillance program. Assist other team members in continually evaluating compliance procedures and in drafting and updating procedures. Provide back-up support within the team and work on other projects as assigned.
- Assist in the risk assessment of existing controls in adherence with enterprise risk assessment procedures and standards.
- Analyze and process data relevant to KRIs and KPIs to monitor the effectiveness of the GCTS program.
- Develop and maintain productive relationships with key stakeholders.
- Understand how the Bank’s risk appetite and risk culture should be considered in day-to-day activities and decisions.
- Champion a customer focused culture and leverage broader Bank relationships, systems and knowledge.
- Champions a high-performance environment and contributes to an inclusive work environment.
- 5+ years of experience with foreign exchange, fixed income, commodities and/or OTC derivatives trading markets , including knowledge of hedging and other trading strategies
- 8+ years of related trading or surveillance experience at a financial institution and/or regulated securities dealer
- 5+ years’ experience in building testing strategies and executing UAT
- Previous experience in identifying external market activity, news and additional factors that may influence trading activities
- 2+ years of regulatory and compliance experience
- Canadian Securities Course, Conduct and Practices Handbook Course, and/or the Trader Training Course are helpful
- An understanding of the Investment Industry Regulatory Organization of Canada (IIROC) dealer rules
- Able to work independently and with other staff across functional lines within the Bank
- Excellent oral and written communication skills
- Post-Secondary education and/or professional designations
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| Job Category | Business Analyst |
We are looking for a Data Architect! Reach out if you are interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!
Type of Employment: Contract
Title: Data Architect
Term: Contract – 12 months with extension
Location: Toronto – Hybrid – twice a week
Industry: Government
Job ID number: C1386
Brief Description on Duties:
Responsibilities Develops and implements the data architecture for application development in a complex and distributed environment, including the determination of the flow and distribution of data, the location of databases, and data access methods. Provides a standard common business vocabulary, expresses strategic data requirements, outlines high level integrated designs to meet these requirements, and aligns with the enterprise strategy and related business architecture. General Skills Knowledge and experience in information resource management tools and techniques Experience with at least two different platforms, operating systems, environments, database technologies, languages and communications protocols Knowledge of performance considerations for different database designs in different environments Experience in structured methodologies for the design, development and implementation of applications Experience in systems analysis and design in large or medium systems environments Experience in the use of Computer Aided Software Engineering (CASE) tools for the development and documentation of data architectures and detailed data models Experience in the use of data modelling methods and tools (e.g. ERWIN, VISIO, PowerDesigner) including a working knowledge of metadata structures, repository functions, and data dictionaries Knowledge and experience in the use of information retrieval packages Awareness of emerging I&IT trends and directions Experience in monitoring and enforcing data modelling/normalization standards Experience in developing enterprise architecture deliverables (e.g. models) Excellent analytical, problem-solving and decision-making skills; verbal and written communication skills; interpersonal and negotiation skills A team player with a track record for meeting deadlines Desirable Skills Experience with middleware and gateways Experience in designing/developing an automated data distribution mechanism Knowledge and understanding of object-oriented analysis and design techniques. Experience in developing enterprise architecture deliverables (e.g. models) based on Ontario Government Enterprise Architecture processes and practice Knowledge and understanding of Information Management principles, concepts, policies and practices Experience creating detailed data standards to enable integration with other systems Experience reviewing conceptual, logical and physical data models for quality and adherence to standards Knowledge and understanding of dimensional and relational data models Knowledge and experience in information resource management tools and techniques
Skills
Experience and Skill Set Requirements
Technical Skills:
- Experience creating physical database designs and operates and experience administering database management systems (DBMS) including database optimization, capacity planning, installation and migration, database design, performance tuning, backup and recovery
- Experience cloud environments especially Azure
- Extensive hands on experience in Azure SQL Database experience, proficiency in T-SQL, understanding of SQL maintenance and audit, user and permissions management, performance management and tuning
- Hands on experience with the following technologies, certifications are an asset: Azure Data Factories, Databricks, Azure Synapse, Azure SQL, Cosmos DB, Oracle DBMS, along with Big Data/Data Lake/Hadoop experience
- Hands on experience with SSIS, SSRS, Talend, Informatica etc.
- Hands on experience working with NoSQL databases and formats (JSON, xml)
- Experience in one or more programming languages
- Experience with custom build cloud development and microservices based architecture
- Experience with data migrations
- Experience in the use of information retrieval packages and proficiency with query languages
- Experience in monitoring and enforcing database rules
- Experience in Incident, Change and Configuration Management procedures
- Experience with one or more communications protocols
- Experience with distributed data systems
- Experience with middleware and gateways
- Experience with researching and implementing cyber security vulnerability remediation
- Knowledge and understanding of Information Management principles, concepts, policies and practices
- Extensive experience in production Database Administration, Maintenance Optimization
- Subject matter expert in database design of the data warehouse or data marts.
- Experience and expert knowledge in technology and/or application required including installation, configuration, maintenance, upgrade (technology stack) and cloning
- Experience in designing/developing an automated data distribution mechanisms
- Knowledge and understanding of object-oriented analysis and design techniques.
- Experience in developing enterprise architecture deliverables (e.g. models) based
- Knowledge and understanding of Information Management principles, concepts, policies and practices
- Experience in impact analysis, implementation planning and implementation of technology or suite specific patches, maintenance packs and releases, and technology stack patch sets and releases
- Experience in technical design, planning and implementation of specific technology or suite
- Experience with database administration and working with vendors
- Strong communication skills to prepare documentation, including but not limited to: solution documentation, user manuals, reports, reviews, assessments
- Ability to present ideas and suggestions clearly and effectively and in a user-friendly manner; maintain a high level of customer service to both internal and external clients
- Ability to communicate technical designs and development in clear and understandable manner
- Three days onsite per week is required. Must be comfortable with working outside the hours of 9-5 as required by the client.
- Extensive hands on experience in Azure SQL Database experience, proficiency in T-SQL, understanding of SQL maintenance and audit, user and permissions management, performance management and tuning
- Hands on experience with the following technologies, certifications are an asset: Azure Data Factories, Databricks, Azure Synapse, Azure SQL, Cosmos DB, Oracle DBMS, along with Big Data/Data Lake/Hadoop experience
- Oracle experience is an asset
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| Job Category | Data Architect, DBA |
We are looking for a Content Creator! Reach out if you are interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!
Type of Employment: Contract
Title: Content Creator
Term: Contract - 9-10 months contract
Location: Hybrid - 2 days per week in office
Industry: Telecom
Job ID number: C1385
Responsibilities:
- Brainstorming original ideas for social media campaigns that promote Bell Canada's products, services, and corporate initiatives, and help build brand love (we have team huddles every morning!). This includes our iconic sponsorships like Raptors, Habs, Formula 1, Toronto Ultra, Canada’s biggest music festivals and so much more!
- Creating OG and platform-specific content that align with Bell's strong brand guidelines. We’re talking posts, stories, reels, videos, graphics, and contests and more for Facebook, X, Instagram, TikTok, Threads, LinkedIn etc.
- Crafting relatable copy that'll resonate with and spark meaningful interactions with our followers and audiences.
- Telling stories with visuals that you’re proud to show your friends! Your visual storytelling techniques will keep our audiences captivated.
- Being a trendsetter! Stay ahead of the curve on social media trends, platform updates, and industry best practices. We’ll rely on you to keep us in the know of what’s happening on the feeds – and how we can tap in.
- Scheduling and prioritizing! Collaborate with our social media team to plan and schedule content calendars, ensuring our followers see us daily as they scroll. To excel in this role, it’s important that you possesses excellent communication skills and an understanding of creative and content creation workflows.
- Proven Experience: We're all about creativity! Share your portfolio showcasing your best work as a social media content creator so we can get to know what makes you, you!
- Social Media Savvy: You know your way around different social media platforms like you do your favourite store. Engagements, hashtags, trends and the ever-changing platform technicalities – you got it all!
- Creativity & Innovation: Your passion for storytelling and design knows no bounds and your content is consistently strong. You’re not afraid to try new things in a test and learn environment.
- Copywriting Skills: You have the unique ability to connect with audiences through your exceptional writing skills. Adaptability is your secret superpower, as you'll switch tones and styles depending on the target audience and portfolio.
- Tech Savvy: You'll be a pro at using social media management tools, graphic design software, and video editing.
- Visual Guru: You shine bright with your skills in photography, videography, and editing. Whether it's a professional camera or a phone, you are comfortable and confident capturing the moment!
- Brand Experience: Your understanding of branding principles will ensure that your content aligns perfectly with Bell's messaging and identity.
- Time Management: Remember us saying; “no two days are ever the same!” If the idea of juggling multiple projects at once and shifting gears in real-time is the opposite of overwhelming for you, keep reading on! We’re looking for someone who can stay calm under pressure and thrives in the fast-pace.
- Team Player: Collaboration is everything! We’re looking for someone who thrives working closely with others, and embraces feedback to make the content even better.
- Camera ready: Experience being both on and off camera is a bonus.
- Parlez-vous français? Speaking French is a huge plus
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| Job Category | content creator |
We are looking for a Full Stack Developer! Reach out if you are interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!
Type of Employment: Contract
Title: Full Stack Developer
Term: Contract – 10 months with extension
Location: Toronto – Hybrid
Industry: Banking
Job ID number: C1384
Typical Day in Role:
- Part of a team that will be working to migrate over 50 cloud-based applications from PCF to Atlas
- Work with DevOps teams to support cloud migration activities
- Make necessary changes based on source code (configuration side not functionality side)
- Squad model – 4 squads, 1 dev assigned to each squad which will be assigned to a group of applications
- Most apps use JavaScript, many still using Java
- Low likelihood of database migration
- Tech stack: JavaScript, ReactJS, NodeJS, Java and Cloud Applications
- Full stack role - 50/50 front end and back-end based on type of application they will be working on
- Set up the local development environment in machines: including node with NPM/Yarn, Java Gradle/maven, etc.
- Debug and analyze the application logs from local or dev environment
- Analyze and oversee the team’s development efforts working towards successful code delivery
- Provide technical leadership to teammates through coaching and mentorship
- Maintain high standards of software quality within the team by establishing good practices and habits
- Collaborate with other software developers, business analysts and software architects to plan, design, develop, test, and maintain different applications
- Design, develop, and unit test applications in accordance with established standards
- 10+ years’ progressive working experience as a Full Stack Developer
- 2+ years’ experience with either ReactJS or NodeJS or Java/JavaScript (either 1 is fine but if have experience with more/all 3 will be a strong asset)
- 1+ years’ experience with Cloud applications
- Experience with cloud migration projects
- Cloud apps experience: Google, Kubernetes
- Knowledge of PCF
- Extensive experience in designing and developing enterprise grade software
- Experience from FI/banking
- Experience with build and deployment of applications with NPM/Yarn, Java Gradle/maven
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills coupled with strong interpersonal and problem-solving skills
- Time management skills with the ability to handle multiple assignments
- Bachelor’s in technical field
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| Job Category | Fullstack Developer |
We are looking for a UI/UX Designer! Reach out if you are interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!
Type of Employment: Contract
Title: UI/UX Designer
Term: Contract – 9 months with extension
Location: Toronto – Hybrid – twice a week
Industry: Banking
Job ID number: C1383
Brief Description on Duties:
Story Behind the Need
Business group: Canadian Digital Banking – Product management and product design for digital properties for mobile and web relating to the Wealth Management business at the Bank.
Project: iTrade mobile app (iOS and Android)
Candidate Value Proposition:The successful candidate will have the opportunity to work on cutting edge market platforms and work on the mobile digital wealth platform as part of the fastest growing Digital group at the Bank, alongside Scotia’s product and design community of practice.
Typical Day in Role:
- Play a pivotal role in enhancing the Bank’s Direct Investing app, iTRADE, for both iOS and Android platforms.
- Collaborate with a cross-functional team of product managers, engineers, fellow designers, content producers, and researchers to craft best-in-class digital experiences.
- Translate customer feedback, stakeholder insights, and analytics into actionable design improvements.
- Engage in design thinking to tackle complex challenges, seeking simple, elegant solutions.
- Utilize expertise in Material Design 3 and Apple’s Human Interface Guidelines to create intuitive, user-centric designs.
- Apply deep understanding of typography, grid systems, visual hierarchy, and color theory to produce aesthetically pleasing and functional designs.
- Create design documentation details including, user flows, dark and light themes, prototypes and accessibility annotation.
- Help evolve our design system, ensuring consistency and efficiency across our products.
- Use advanced skills in Figma to bring innovative design concepts to life.
- 10+ years of experience as a product designer
- 3-5 years of recent professional experience with iOS and Android mobile app product design
- 2+ years of experience with Figma
- Strong demonstrated experience with visual design / UI
- Experience having worked in a large product team (with researchers, product managers, engineers, designers)
- FI/Banking experience
- Animation experience
- Meticulous attention to detail and a knack for finding simple solutions to complex design problems.
- Proven ability to work effectively in a team-oriented, collaborative environment.
- A passion for translating insights and analytics into thoughtful design solutions.
- Bachelors or master’s degree in Design
- Studies and/or experience in complementary fields to Product Design, visual design, animation, applied arts, etc. an asset
- A strong individual contributor in Product Design who has the right soft skills and the education and experience to excel in role; strong customer focus; experience in product design and strong visual design skillset and proven experience to support it (e.g. strong portfolio). A formal design education vs just a bootcamp or UX course makes a difference in elevating the candidate’s skillset.
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| Job Category | UI/UX Desginer |
We are looking for a Business System Analyst! Reach out if you are interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!
Type of Employment: Contract
Title: Business System Analyst
Term: Contract – 12 months with extension
Location: Toronto – Hybrid – twice a week
Industry: Banking
Job ID number: C1383
Brief Description on Duties:
SUMMARY OF DAY-TO-DAY RESPONSIBILITIES:
- This team runs under an Agile project delivery and completes two weeks prints
- Gathering requirements from product owners and up streams where AML data is being sourced
- BSA will create data mapping documents based on requirements.
- When design is finalized they would support project delivery phase (help developers and testing teams) and see to the end of the project
- Provide support and produce detailed system requirements and technical / functional specifications in alignment with standards and frameworks.
- Work in close partnership with business partners / technology / project teams and stakeholders to elicit, analyze, document, communicate and manage detailed functional specifications.
- Develop effective and efficient solutions by researching/analyzing current state system capabilities and defining technology solutions options / recommendations working closely with key technology partners (e.g. Solution Architects and Quality Assurance staff). Define, document, and translate business requirements into detailed functional specifications and non-functional specifications.
- Support testing teams in translating requirements and use cases into test conditions and expected results for product, performance, user acceptance, and operational acceptance testing.
- Support and contribute to project management activities by participating in the scoping and estimating of project efforts, risks identification and mitigation measures recommendation, communicating activity status and providing timely notification and escalation of possible issues/problems to the Project Manager.
- Participate in quality management reviews, in particular reviews of the designs, prototypes and other requirements work products to ensure they fulfill the requirements.
- Support collaboration with key stakeholders to determine solutions, assess impact to existing work processes and systems, and how to manage the integration.
- May provide operational / process related analysis and support to various extents.
- Ensure best practices related to the BSA discipline are adhered to and enforced within project processes and deliverables.
- Adhere to existing processes/standards including requirements management and project management disciplines, well-defined enterprise technology delivery practices and standards, and business technology architecture, escalating escalate issues as required.
- Continuously enhance knowledge/expertise in own area and keep current with leading-edge technologies trends/developments and develop expertise in TD services, applications, infrastructure, analytical tools, and techniques that can contribute to effective solution development/delivery.
- Continuously enhance knowledge of business domains and their products/services.
- Support the development of business cases including benefits identification, RFI/RFP, and service level agreements with vendors/suppliers consistent with technology requirements/guidelines.
- Maintain ongoing communication with all stakeholders throughout the project lifecycle.
- Able to perform BSA tasks effectively while assigned to a single project or multiple concurrent projects.
- Prioritize and manage own workload to deliver quality results and meet timelines.
- Support a positive work environment that promotes service to the business, quality, innovation, and teamwork and ensure timely communication of issues/ points of interest.
- Participate in knowledge transfer within the team and business units, Coach new or less experienced colleagues and act as a reference for the requirements management lifecycle.
- Identify and recommend opportunities to enhance productivity, effectiveness, and operational efficiency of the business unit and/or team Additional Information.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills and comfortable working with both Business and Technical teams.
- Self-starter with the ability to multi-task effectively and independently within a fast-paced environment.
- Able to gauge the appropriate level of priority and detail and/or effort on any given project.
- Able to adapt quickly to changing priorities.
- Highly motivated with a proven track record of delivering results.
- Exhibit effective problem-solving skills with a high degree of attention to detail.
- Excellent time management and prioritization skills. Demonstrated ability to follow-up on issues independently and ensure they are resolved promptly, escalating when necessary.
- Able to coach.
- Advanced to Expert knowledge of system analysis process and techniques.
- Advanced to Expert knowledge of systems and applications supported by the team including system components, functionality, interfaces, data flows, and business rules.
- Advanced to Expert knowledge of enterprise technology delivery practices and standards and related expertise including design, development, testing and project management.
- 3+ years experience in AML background/Fraud background
- BSA experience – 8- 10 years
- Knowledge or Experience Case Management Systems (no particular system specified)
- 8-10 years experience in SQL
- 3 Years Data Profiling and Data Analysis Experience
- 2-3 years ORACLE – Basic Experience
- 2-3 years AZURE – Basic Experience
- Able to work independently, great communication written and verbal
- Banking experience
- GSI background
- Data Profiling Tools – e.g. Python
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| Job Category | Business Analyst, Business Systems Analyst |
We are looking for a QA/QC Test Lead! Reach out if you are interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!
Type of Employment: Contract
Title: QA/QC Test Lead
Term: Contract – 6 months with extension
Location: Toronto – Hybrid
Industry: Banking
Job ID number: C1383
Brief Description on Duties:
Business Group: Commercial Global Engineering: Oversees changes/implementations to commercial client programs.
Project: The team is seeking an QA Test Lead to work on an ETL Salesforce project specifically working with Talend 8. The project is currently half completed and planning to run for the next 2 years.
Candidate Value Proposition: The successful candidate will have the opportunity to work with one of Canada’s top 5 banks.
Typical Day in Role:
- Develop Test Strategies for project delivery.
- Develop Test scenarios and queries for In-house developed application, DB level and E2E testing scripts
- Execute test plans, scenarios, scripts or procedures
- Plan test schedules or strategies in accordance with project scope or delivery dates
- Produce dashboards and reports for sprints or code releases.
- Develop testing programs that addresses areas such as database impacts, software scenarios, or usability
- Identify, analyze and document problems with program function, output, online screen or content
- Monitor bug resolution efforts and track successes
- Document software defects, using a bug tracking system, and report defects to software developers
- Create or maintain databases of known test defects
- Good understanding of testing standards and methodologies
- 5+ years of previous QA Testing experience
- 3+ years of previous Experience with ETL
- 3+ years experience with JIRA, Confluence, Bitbucket/Git suite and managing test cases, test plans using Jira plugins like X-ray or Zephyr.
- Previous experience working with Talend 7 or 8
- Working with Salesforce integration
- Previous FI experience
- Great communication both oral and written
- Team player
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| Job Category | QA Test Lead, QC Test Lead |
We are looking for a Project Manager! Reach out if you are interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!
Type of Employment: Contract
Title: Project Manager
Term: Contract – 12 months with extension
Location: Toronto – Hybrid – twice a week
Industry: Government
Job ID number: C1382
Brief Description on Duties:
Responsibilities
- Provides project management on large scale, complex, high profile and high risk projects for OPS I&IT initiatives.
- Ensures project deliverables meet clients’ business requirements on time, scope and budget, with a focus on cost-effectiveness, efficiencies and compliance with OPS project management methodologies and frameworks.
- Leads organizational development, strategy development, business planning, and Ministry funding requests.
- Gathers and develops requirements in order to create and maintain a detailed project schedule and/or integrated plan.
- Ability to monitor and forecast project costs and provide reporting and input to ensure targets are met
- Experience developing and managing project schedules, deliverables, and scope
- Ability to promote I&IT project management best practices and adherence to standard methodologies
- Demonstrated experience directing project teams to ensure project deliverables are delivered on time and adhere to government and ministry standards
- Extensive experience coordinating and monitoring project processes, and developing/communicating guidelines and procedures
- Sources, selects and on-boards team members in various disciplines, clarify roles and responsibilities and set task/deliverable/performance expectations for resources that are both OPS unionized employees as well as fee for service (FFS) consultants.
- Resolves resourcing and inter-personal conflicts, negotiates changes to resourcing, ensures knowledge is shared among team members such as project objectives and deliverables are met.
- Develops complex project budgets based on multiple funding channels and cross ministry dependencies.
- Effectively manages large project budgets and ensures a high level of fiscal control and accountability including estimates, forecasts and reconciliation/confirmation of actuals.
- Proactively identifies potential risk events and issues before they occur so that proper mitigating strategies can be developed.
- Articulates and prioritizes issues and risks at senior executive levels and recommends mitigation strategies for decision makers.
- Establishes and participates in steering committee and stakeholder forums.
- Provides, project, program, and/or portfolio reporting to multi-stakeholders at senior executive levels.
- Uses appropriate strategies and actions to overcome resistance to change and capitalize on forces in support of change during all stages of projects - concept, definition, planning, implementation and close-out.
- Promotes OPS I&IT standards and best practices for project management to facilitate control of system quality, adherence to standard methodology and the control of the use of I&IT resources.
- Knowledge and understanding of Project Management’s Institute’s Project Management Body of Knowledge
- Knowledge and understanding of Information Management principles, concepts, policies and practices
- Knowledge and understanding of Accessibility for Ontarians with Disability Act (AODA) and related regulations and standards
- Ability to make recommendations on the acquisition of software, hardware, and technology resources
- Experience managing and coordinating project monitoring, anticipates and troubleshoots issues, provides ongoing expertise, resolves problems and provides project effectiveness
- Ability to identify conflict between project and functional areas and develops responses to successfully address conflict
- Ability to handle client relationships to manage expectations, provides updates as required, identifies potential conflicts between project and functional areas
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| Job Category | Project Manager |
We are looking for a Program Manager! Reach out if you are interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!
Type of Employment: Contract
Title: Program Manager
Term: Contract – 11 months with extension
Location: Toronto – Hybrid – twice a week
Industry: Banking
Job ID number: C1381
Brief Description on Duties:
Story Behind the Need
Business group: Project Delivery & Support is a centralized project management office that supports various technology teams across the bank, oversees the delivery of large-scale IT projects for a variety of teams. Responsible for ensuring the projects have the proper team to complete effectively.
Project/Program: Initiative that will implement a hybrid endpoint management production rollout for patching and end-to-end automated self service using Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) / Endpoint Management (Intune) co-management of ~130,000 physical and virtual Windows workstations globally across the Bank. The co-management approach with SCCM and Intune introduces a carefully phased strategy, allowing IT teams to seamlessly embrace cloud-based endpoint management and Intune while still capitalizing on existing infrastructure and investment in SCCM.
Candidate Value Proposition:
- The successful candidate will have the opportunity to work on a very high visibility project for one of the top 5 Canadian Banks.
- Manage and ensure the successful delivery of complex projects/programs involving multiple teams from different groups across the bank, as well as external vendors when required
- Demonstrate strong leadership skills to develop and maintain high functioning project teams
- Influences business project decisions with direct impact on financials or operating results
- Ability to independently run executive Steerco meetings with Group Heads, EVPs, and SVPs
- Takes a strategic focus aligned to business priorities
- Champions a customer focused culture to deepen client relationships and leverage broader Bank relationships, systems and knowledge Recommends technical strategy within a technical domain, may investigate and evaluate new technologies
- Impacts the technical direction and resource allocation for products, services or platforms supported
- Leads the solution of risks and issues that have a broad impact on the project team – accountability typically spans across multiple products, a line of businesses or with significant enterprise system impact
- Defines and maintains the roadmap and project budget
- 10+ years of project management experience in large corporations, with at least 5 of those in program management
- 5+ years’ experience with enterprise-level deployments of Microsoft security services: M365, Intune, Patching, Entra ID, etc.
- 10+ years’ experience leading and presenting at Executive leadership steering committee meetings (SVP, EVP+ audience) – must have
- 5+ years’ experience working with multiple countries, technical teams and vendors
- 10+ years managing large-scale global enterprise-wide application deployments
- Bilingual in Spanish
- Financial institution experience
- Previous experience managing projects using Agile project methodologies
- Technical curiosity. Curious to understand the technical aspects and drivers/challenges of the project.
- Excellent stakeholder management skills and messaging skills (SVP, EVP+ audiences) –must have
- Agile and adaptable personality
- Proactive approach to identifying issues and risks within the project. – must have
- Ability to accept feedback and adapt to project needs and changes
- Excellent communication skills and messaging skillset – must have
- Ability to think “outside the box” for solutions and issue/problem mitigation and solutioning
- Ability to manage multiple workstreams and technical development teams
- Financial acumen
- Strong project governance skillset
- Excellent project planning, scheduling, co-ordinating, risk and issue management skillset. Ability to identify critical path items and dependencies.
- Bachelor's degree in a related field required (Technical fields preferred, although experience is more important) PMP required but experience valued over education
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| Job Category | Program Manager |
We are looking for a Business Analyst! Reach out if you are interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!
Type of Employment: Contract
Title: Business Analyst
Term: Contract – 11 months with extension
Location: Toronto – Hybrid - twice a week
Industry: Banking
Job ID number: C1381
Brief Description on Duties:
Reporting to a Director, and taking day-to-day direction from the Initiative Lead, the Senior Business Analyst will be responsible for working with the business stakeholders to understand the current state business processes and then identify & document optimal future state processes for the usage of both the business & for technology teams.
Candidate Value Proposition:
The SWM team is a highly visible team with lots of opportunity to gain experience that can easily be transferred to other roles – it would open doors to growth opportunities. The experience will allow them to consider Product Owner roles as they will gain the required skills through this opportunity.
Typical Day in Role:
- Provide basic consulting services to business partners
- Facilitate the process optimization process by conducting interviews, leading workshops and documenting the results
- Conduct interviews with business, technology, marketing, operations, compliance and other teams from various groups to gather requirements.
- Provide and apply expertise in business analysis, data mapping, creation of process flows etc.
- Complete units of analysis work and integrate that work back into project
- Assist with preparation and maintenance of documentation
- Ensuing continuity by providing cross training at the end of the assignment
- Support decision making re: project scope and prioritization by performing gap analyses, data integrity analysis, other.
- Recommend business solutions that optimize the user experience and satisfy sponsor/stakeholder needs, continually exploring and assessing options for value-add.
- Manage the detailed business requirement phase identifying, tracking and resolving issues.
- Recommend preparation of appropriate new business process documentation and ensure adequate end-user documentation.
- Assist with the completion of the Business Case by performing & analyzing relevant data queries.
- Contribute to successful project completion within budget and on time by identifying risks and developing/recommending mitigation strategies.
- Act as lead business analyst liaison between business lines, interfacing applications teams, 3rd party vendors, developers and Delivery Managers.
- Effectively communicate and build rapport with team members, stakeholders and business partners using a variety of techniques and collaboration from initiation to close.
- Manage relationships and expectations with Wealth Management business lines and partners such as GWMS, Support, Operations and other teams, as well as with third-party vendors and/or content providers.
- Participate in the evaluation of third-party vendors and software as relevant.
- Prepare for and participate in complex group meetings and supports in the preparation for JAD sessions and information gathering workshops.
- Prepare and deliver presentations to business partners, selecting the appropriate approach based on the audience.
- Resolve minor conflicts/issues and escalates others as appropriate.
- Collaborate with colleagues across the organization to get things done.
- 5+ years of experience as a business analyst in FI
- 5+ years of Experience in requirements documentation and business processes
- Demonstrated superior computer skills, including MS Visio (business processes), MS Excel, PPT, Word
- Experience with Data mapping
- CBAP
- Training/Experience in Agile and Waterfall methodology
- Experience with Financial Planning Initiatives
- JIRA/Confluence
- Communication skills
- Ability to multitask
- Time management
- Critical thinking
- Problem solving
- University degree, college diploma or equivalent experience.
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| Job Category | Business Analyst |
We are looking for a BI Developer! Reach out if you are interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!
Type of Employment: Contract
Title: BI Developer
Term: Contract – 11 months with extension
Location: Toronto – Hybrid - twice a week
Industry: Banking
Job ID number: C1380
Brief Description on Duties:
Risk Management Shared Services team is seeking a Business Intelligence Analyst to join their Data, Analytics and Reporting (DAR) team. This senior analyst will be instrumental in delivering analytics products to the internal clients we serve, which include our Fraud Risk Management (FRM), Technology Risk (TR), Global Security & Investigations (GSI), and Enterprise Insider Risk Program (EIRP) partners. The ideal candidate will be able to bridge the gap between risk management and analytical expertise.
Key Responsibilities:
- Thrive in a fast paced, dynamic, and unpredictable environment with the ability to adopt to changing priorities, learn new skills and demonstrate a commitment to teamwork and collaborative problem solving.
- Develop end-to-end solutions by analyzing/profiling/augmenting data, applying statistical methods and communicating results through illustrative visualizations.
- Demonstrate ownership of data products by iteratively improving insights and system architecture.
- Build an analytic product target state, roadmap that highlights activities & milestones, and deliver weekly status updates to internal leaders.
- Undergraduate or graduate degree in quantitative discipline such as management analytics, computer engineering, computer science, mathematics, physics, economics
- 5 years relevant data or analytics experience.
- Experience with SQL, Python, Bash/Powershell tools are a must.
- Knowledge of Alteryx and big data technologies like Hadoop, Spark, Azure are a nice to have.
- Experience creating interactive visualizations in Tableau, utilizing data models to tell a story with data. Some visualizations may mature into data products for either operational or executive audiences.
- Experience with other BI tools (Powerbi, Qlik) also beneficial.
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines and automated testing procedures.
- A working knowledge of dimensional modeling and data warehousing methodologies are also beneficial.
- Demonstrated ability to translate business requirements into technical specifications.
- Balance of technical and business acumen, including business case development from data modeling.
- Ability to draft storyboards and execute narratives using Powerpoint. Experience in advisory or consultancy roles are valued.
- Experience creating interactive visualizations in Tableau, utilizing data models to tell a story with data. Some visualizations may mature into data products for either operational or executive audiences.
- Experience with SQL, and MS server data & tools are a must.
- A working knowledge of dimensional modeling and data warehousing methodologies
- Knowledge of Python, SSIS and MS Azure cloud services (such as Azure Data Factory, Databricks, ADLS, Delta Lake, Azure SQL DB and Azure Synapse) is a strong asset.
- Knowledge of Alteryx and big data technologies like Hadoop, Spark, Azure are a nice to have.
- Demonstrated ability to translate business requirements into technical specifications.
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| Job Category | BI Developer, BI Developers |
We are looking for a Full Stack Developer! Reach out if you are interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!
Type of Employment: Contract
Title: Full Stack Developer
Term: Contract – 3 months with extension
Location: Toronto – Hybrid - twice a week
Industry: Banking
Job ID number: C1379
Brief Description on Duties:
Project: Document Upload project – firstly targeting small business customers, allowing them to upload documents to website using a micro app, and back office will process these documents; plan to build this into a bigger feature – full stack developer needed to work on coding for app that will help to upload documents
Candidate Value Proposition:
The successful candidate will have the opportunity to be part of a team of enthusiastic engineers building front-end web applications in this role and will have opportunities to work with all stakeholders to design best-in-class technology solutions.
Typical Day in Role:
- Analyze and oversee the team’s development efforts working towards successful code delivery
- Provide technical leadership to teammates through coaching and mentorship
- Maintain high standards of software quality within the team by establishing good practices and habits
- Collaborate with other software developers, business analysts and software architects to plan, design, develop, test, and maintain different applications
- Design, develop, and unit test applications in accordance with established standards
- Work with Delivery Leads and BSA’s to articulate efforts and compile estimates
- Demonstrates knowledge of staying current on industry best practice and secure coding
- Tech stack: Javascript, ReactJS, NodeJS, and Cloud Applications
- Full stack role will be 50/50 front end and back-end
- 10+ years’ progressive working experience as a Full Stack Developer working in the IT industry in roles like developer and team lead
- 2+ years’ experience with ReactJS
- 2+ years’ experience with NodeJS
- Experience with Cloud applications
- Extensive experience in designing and developing enterprise grade software
- Experience from FI/banking
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills coupled with strong interpersonal and problem-solving skills
- Time management skills with the ability to handle multiple assignments
- Bachelor’s in technical field
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| Job Category | Fullstack Developer |